REOPENING SOUGHT.
OVERGROWN WATERWAY.
(Frcnn Our Correspondent.) PL KEKOHE, Tuesday. The fact that bargee used one time to have a good waterway up the Whangamarino and tributary streams right from Mcrcer to the coal mine at Kopuku was mentioned by Mr. W. Sommerville, of Mauku, at a meeting of the Franklin County Council. The county engineer. Mr. A. C. Bellany, said that now the waterwav was so overgrown by willows that there are places where literally an eel could not wriggle through. A request by a deputation for assistance to have the waterway reopened was referred to the county chairman, Mr. J. X. Massey. M.F.. to discuss with the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple.
The deputation intimated that farmers in the Kopuku district were prepared to form a drainage board to keep unwatered an area of 1000 acres or more that the reopening of the waterway was expected to drain. The cost of the reopening work was estimated at between £2000 and £3000, and would extend over about six miles of waterway,- out of a total of 10 miles to Mercer.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 180, 31 July 1940, Page 16
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184REOPENING SOUGHT. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 180, 31 July 1940, Page 16
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